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Today the General Manager of the Panama Tourism Authority, Salomón Shamah, and the Minister of Economy and Finance, Frank de Lima, will be meeting to conduct an inspection of the improvements to be made to the Atlapa Convention Center.

On March 15, more than 150 exhibitors will arrive in the district of Tolé to participate in the 8th San José de Tolé Fair. The organizing committee indicated that the region receives an economic injection of some $250,000 dollars during the five days of the fair.

The Valle de Pesé, known as 'the industrial town', is preparing to celebrate the 67th Sugar Cane Festival, to take place from March 14 to 17, 2013.

Over the past week considerable work has been done to set up the stage where the festival queen will be crowned and bands will perform. Remarkably, it is being constructed entirely out of the town's signature product: sugar cane and its derivatives (cores, fibers, bagasse).